Santo Domingo.- After 12 years of waiting for the conclusion of the buildings that houses the Luis Eduardo Aybar Sanitary City, It will be this Tuesday when the government delivers the last space corresponding to block C, the Surgical Clinical Hospital.
With this, hospitals that are part of the hospital complex that are larger and of greater technology in the country would be completed.
The last building endings were in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Buildings (MIVED)which reported that this will be inaugurated on Tuesday, September 30 at 9:30 in the morning in an act that President Luis Abinader will head.
The hospital is located in block C and has six levels and will provide 122 new hospitalization beds to the health system, aimed at patients in various medical conditions.
In addition, he will have 14 General operating roomswhich will strengthen the surgical capacity of the complex.
In an interview in June of this year, with the president of the hospital complex, the neurosurgeon José Joaquín Puello, explained to reporters on the day that this building would also house the Burned unit on the second levelthat about 10 years ago it was transferred to Ney Arias Lora Traumatological Hospital.
He argued that once delivered Surgical clinicthe Next phase It is from consolidation of some services that they have in mind as is the Intrauterine surgerythat is, you can operate the malformations of a baby even being in his mother’s belly.
FIRST SANITARY CITY PICAZO was in 2013
It should be noted that Health city, whose first picazo occurred in July 2013, has 13 facilities, which are interconnected, marked and with ramps for people with disabilities.
Among the facilities that already operate, they stand out External consultations, the Maternal Child Hospital of greater technology in the country, the CI enter cardio-neuro ophthalmological and transplantation (Cecanot)and specialized units such as Cemadojafor medical images, and facilities of the Gastroenterology Center donated by the Japanese government.
With these services plus those that would be added with the commissioning of the center specialized in surgery, the most vulnerable will have the opportunity to access a better quality in care.
Health city will host Central American Games
It is remembered that the termination of this health city, which is emerging as the reference health center for headquarters of the XXV Central American and Caribbean Games, Santo Domingo 2026, That they will be held in the country next year, was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, although at that time the children’s hospital was used to serve patients infected with the condition.
The health city represents the largest state investment in public health in Dominican history, with an amount superior to the 18 billion pesosthat is, it tripled the initial budget that was of 6,993 million pesos.
